U+F9EC "溺" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+F9EC "溺" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a glyph from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which represents a specialized, non-standard variant of a Chinese/Japanese/Korean character primarily used for compatibility with older encoding standards such as CNS 11643 or certain vendor-specific character sets. Its visual form corresponds to a traditional Chinese character that might be rendered differently under modern Unicode CJK Unified Ideographs, and its typical usage preserves the exact appearance of the original source standard rather than conveying a unique semantic meaning. This character is rarely used in contemporary text and serves mainly to maintain fidelity when converting legacy documents into Unicode without altering their intended graphical representation.

General Properties

Code Point U+F9EC
Version Added 1.1
Name CJK Compatibility Ideograph-#
Block CJK Compatibility Ideographs
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "溺" U+6EBA CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 溺
HTML Hex Encoding 溺
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xA7 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding 0xF9EC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000F9EC
C/C++/Java Escape \uf9ec

Unicode Properties

Full Composition Exclusion Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "溺" U+6EBA CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "溺" U+6EBA CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Script Han
Script Extensions Han
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break OLetter
Ideographic Yes

Unihan Properties

kCompatibilityVariant U+6EBA
kDefinition drown; submerge in water; indulge
kHangul 익:0
kIRG_KSource K0-6C4A
kKorean IK
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+7750+85.3.10
kRSUnicode 85.10
kTotalStrokes 13